FESTIVAL EXHIBITION
Who are “we?” Where do
community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest,
responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open
dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals and with
plants, fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?
community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest,
responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open
dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals and with
plants, fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?
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FESTIVALAUSSTELLUNG: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future
Could “we” then talk, dream, and coexist beyond species boundaries and our linear understanding of time? Who would “we” then become? And can artificial intelligences facilitate reciprocal learning – can they help us to better respect, even understand nonhuman consciousness?
The exhibition AI ANCESTORS explores these questions, explores ways of being in interspecies alliance. The featured voices draw on decolonial, intersectional, trans- and ecofeminist approaches, non-Western and Indigenous ways of being and knowledge systems. Through body, poetry, and sound, they sound out animist myths in Tibet and co-authorship with AI, responding to audience members' heartbeats, whispering poems from the future.
Beyond the trivialisation or glorification of AI and transcending utopia and dystopia, AI ANCESTORS invites visitors to sense and become part of these futures today.
With work by K Allado-McDowell USA | Rike Scheffler Germany | Himali Singh Soin India/UK & David Soin Tappeser Germany | Louise Walleneit Germany
Curation: Rike Scheffler
Co-Curation: Mathias Zeiske
WED 15.6. und THU 16.6. | 13.00–19.00 daily as well as FR 17.6. – THU 23.6. | 13.00–22.00 daily | Ground Floor | Free Entry
